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Join the next science and engineering revolution at Amazon's Delivery Foundation Model team, where you'll work alongside world-class scientists and engineers to pioneer the next frontier of logistics through advanced AI and foundation models. We are seeking an exceptional Senior Applied Scientist to help develop innovative foundation models that enable delivery of billions of packages worldwide. In this role, you'll combine highly technical work with scientific leadership, ensuring the team delivers robust solutions for dynamic real-world environments. Your team will leverage Amazon's vast data and computational resources to tackle ambitious problems across a diverse set of Amazon delivery use cases. Key job responsibilities - Design and implement novel deep learning architectures combining a multitude of modalities, including image, video, and geospatial data. - Solve computational problems to train foundation models on vast amounts of Amazon data and infer at Amazon scale, taking advantage of latest developments in hardware and deep learning libraries. - As a foundation model developer, collaborate with multiple science and engineering teams to help build adaptations that power use cases across Amazon Last Mile deliveries, improving experience and safety of a delivery driver, an Amazon customer, and improving efficiency of Amazon delivery network. - Guide technical direction for specific research initiatives, ensuring robust performance in production environments. - Mentor fellow scientists while maintaining strong individual technical contributions. A day in the life As a member of the Delivery Foundation Model team, you’ll spend your day on the following: - Develop and implement novel foundation model architectures, working hands-on with data and our extensive training and evaluation infrastructure - Guide and support fellow scientists in solving complex technical challenges, from trajectory planning to efficient multi-task learning - Guide and support fellow engineers in building scalable and reusable infra to support model training, evaluation, and inference - Lead focused technical initiatives from conception through deployment, ensuring successful integration with production systems- Drive technical discussions within the team and and key stakeholders - Conduct experiments and prototype new ideas - Mentor team members while maintaining significant hands-on contribution to technical solutions About the team The Delivery Foundation Model team combines ambitious research vision with real-world impact. Our foundation models provide generative reasoning capabilities required to meet the demands of Amazon's global Last Mile delivery network. We leverage Amazon's unparalleled computational infrastructure and extensive datasets to deploy state-of-the-art foundation models to improve the safety, quality, and efficiency of Amazon deliveries. Our work spans the full spectrum of foundation model development, from multimodal training using images, videos, and sensor data, to sophisticated modeling strategies that can handle diverse real-world scenarios. We build everything end to end, from data preparation to model training and evaluation to inference, along with all the tooling needed to understand and analyze model performance. Join us if you're excited about pushing the boundaries of what's possible in logistics, working with world-class scientists and engineers, and seeing your innovations deployed at unprecedented scale.

We're seeking a Senior Applied Scientist to pioneer sensor-based algorithms that power next-generation experiences across Amazon's device ecosystem, including Echo, Kindle, Fire TV, and Fire Tablets. Working with multidisciplinary teams of scientists and engineers, you'll develop innovative technologies at the intersection of signal processing and machine learning that transform how millions of customers interact with our products. The ideal candidate combines strong theoretical foundations in machine learning and signal processing with practical implementation skills. You'll develop state-of-the-art sensor algorithms from concept to production, translate complex research problems into practical consumer technologies, and create solutions optimized for diverse hardware platforms. We're looking for someone who thrives in fast-paced environments, solves complex problems efficiently, and iterates quickly based on real-world feedback. Your technical decisions will directly shape future product capabilities and deliver exceptional experiences to Amazon customers worldwide. Key job responsibilities - Develop and implement advanced algorithms and machine learning models to enhance Amazon's products and services. - Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, scientists, and product managers to translate business needs into technical solutions. - Conduct thorough data analysis to identify trends, patterns, and insights that drive product innovation and improvement. - Optimize algorithms for performance, scalability, and efficiency across various Amazon platforms. - Present findings and recommendations to stakeholders, influencing product strategy and decision-making. - Stay abreast of the latest research and technological advancements in machine learning and related fields to continuously improve Amazon's offerings. - Mentor and guide junior scientists and engineers, fostering a culture of learning and innovation. - Ensure the ethical use of data and algorithms, adhering to Amazon's guidelines and best practices. - Contribute to the publication of research findings in conferences and journals, elevating Amazon's reputation in the scientific community. About the team At Amazon Lab126, we're a pioneering research and development hub dedicated to designing and engineering revolutionary consumer electronics. Established in 2004 as a subsidiary of Amazon.com, Inc., we've been at the forefront of innovation, starting with the creation of the best-selling Kindle family of products. Our portfolio has since expanded to include transformative devices such as Fire tablets, Fire TV, and Amazon Echo. Our Lab126 team is dedicated to developing advanced sensing technologies and algorithms, collaborating with program managers to design and implement transformative user features and experiences.

Are you interested in computational advertising and sponsored recommendations? Do you thrive in a fast-paced organization with a significant impact on hundreds of millions of customers? Do you love to innovate at the intersection of customer experience, deep learning, and high-scale machine-learning systems? If so, Amazon Sponsored Products could be the right place for you. The Sponsored Products (SP) Detail Page Experience, Monetization, and Marketplace Intelligence team is responsible for building compelling advertising experiences on one of the most visited destinations on the internet—Amazon’s product detail pages. We focus on delivering personalized, context-aware ads that align with shopper preferences, adapt to seasonal and event-driven moments, and integrate naturally with organic content such as deals, new arrivals, basket-building features, and fast-delivery options. The team operates full-stack—from auction mechanisms to customer-facing experiences—working closely with Amazon Stores to drive the growth of SP on detail pages. Key job responsibilities We are seeking a seasoned and technically proficient leader to own and expand this space. As a single-threaded leader, you will guide the transformation of the detail page into a high-impact surface for product discovery and monetization through scalable, customer-centric advertising solutions—ranging from fully sponsored content to blended ad-organic formats. This role also entails end-to-end responsibility for marketplace operations, including auction allocation and pricing strategies. The successful candidate will apply a diverse set of signals, such as page context, shopper intent, seasonality, regional trends, delivery speed, and return likelihood, as well as deep learning and generative AI models to enhance customer experience, unlock incremental monetization, reduce cost to serve, and drive sustainable advertiser RoAS (return on ad spend). Additionally, the role involves developing real-time dynamic blending systems that optimize ad load and placement to balance business and customer outcomes. This leader will oversee a cross-functional organization of applied scientists, engineers, and product managers, owning core components such as: Tier-1 auction service for detail pages, innovation across large-scale ML, deep learning, and generative AI/LLMs, and design and deployment of new product experiences that improve discovery and deliver business impact. This is a high-impact leadership role at the intersection of personalization, monetization, product innovation, marketplace dynamics, and machine learning—ideal for a strategic, technically fluent, and customer-obsessed leader ready to shape the future of Sponsored Products advertising on Amazon product detail pages.

Amazon's Advertising Trust (AT) organization is seeking a Director of Applied Science to lead our global science, engineering and data teams. This role will shape the future of advertising trust and safety, overseeing a large and diverse organization across Applied Science, Software Development and Data Engineering teams. Reporting to the VP of Advertising Trust and Privacy, this is a Director of Directors role where you will drive innovation in content understanding, policy automation, and GenAI applications while scaling our capabilities across Amazon's advertising ecosystem. You do not shy away from the direct ownership of scaled model development and deployment in a high availability and complex real time ecosystem. AT is on the forefront of Advertising specific Foundational Model development and the subsequent capabilities that rich metadata can provide to the ad serving bidder. In this role you will be the expert leader charged with partnering with business, sales, product and policy teams to identify and solve the hardest technical problems facing the Ads business. You will lead through a global organization spanning four continents and must influence across organizations, requiring strong leadership skills in managing distributed teams across time zones and cultures. This diverse team structure demands expertise in managing different disciplines while maintaining high standards of technical excellence and operational efficiency and team culture. You have the depth and breadth and domain expertise to provide industry leading science leadership/guidance to the most complex initiatives while also doing hands-on work on the hardest problems that accelerate the team. To succeed in this role, your past work should exemplify resounding business impact at scale and represents industry-first inventions for customers. In your past roles, you lead the definition, design, architecture quality, implementation, and delivery of the most advanced, difficult, cross-cutting, and ambiguous scientific challenges spanning across an organization, ideally in the Ad Tech industry. Key job responsibilities Strategic Leadership * Define and execute the scientific and technical vision for AT's next generation of tools and capabilities. * Drive innovation in GenAI, LLMs, computer vision, and other emerging technologies. * Lead cross-functional planning and execution across science, ,engineering and data teams. * Partner with senior leaders across Amazon Advertising to align on strategic initiatives. * Own the end-to-end delivery of AT's science and technical roadmap. Organizational Development * Build and scale high-performing teams across multiple disciplines and global locations * Drive hiring and development strategies for senior technical talent * Create career growth paths across scientific and technical roles * Establish performance standards and development frameworks * Foster a culture of innovation, inclusion, and technical excellence Technical Innovation * Guide research directions in content understanding, policy automation, and trust & safety * Drive adoption of emerging technologies while ensuring operational excellence * Lead technical planning and resource allocation across teams * Partner with academia and research organizations to advance the state of the art * Represent AT's technical achievements across multiple venues Product & Business Impact * Align technical investments with business priorities and customer needs * Drive measurable improvements in accuracy, efficiency, and scale * Own key metrics across moderation quality, automation rates, and customer satisfaction * Build strong partnerships with business stakeholders and partner teams * Guide product strategy and roadmap development

The Inventory Planning and Control team is looking for an applied scientist to help build next generation models for supply chain systems in the Supply Chain Optimization Technology (SCOT) group. We own the systems that decide where to place hundreds of millions of units of inventory a week, globally, shaping Amazon’s cost structures and value proposition to the customer and ultimately maximizing Amazon’s long term free cash flow. The work is complex and important to Amazon. There are no textbook solutions to the problems we are solving and very few attempts have been made to solve at Amazon's scale, which necessitates deep analytical thinking to solve problems. As a Applied Scientist, you will work with other Scientists, Software Engineers, Product Managers and business teams to understand the current challenges in our inventory systems, map these challenges to scientific models, innovate solutions using techniques in Operations Research, Machine Learning, Statistics, and Optimization and pick the right tools to deploy these solutions at scale. You will be a part of shaping the future of inventory placement systems at Amazon. Your work will be visible to the business leaders in SCOT and will impact on how we serve our customers so that they get the right product at the right time.

Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization is developing a next-generation web search system to support RAG applications across Amazon. We are looking for a Applied Scientist with expertise in information retrieval (IR) and ranking to join the team! If you are looking for an opportunity to develop innovative solutions to deep technical problems in web-scale IR, having a massive customer impact, this might be the role for you! As a Applied Scientist, you will work with smart, passionate colleagues in a fast-paced environment. You will invent, develop, and help deploy novel, scalable algorithms to advance the state-of-the-art in our IR stack. You will keep up with relevant research in the field of IR and publish your work in top-tier conferences. You will develop and help lead the execution of multi-year research roadmaps, enabling the team to focus on the right technical challenges to delight our customers. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will apply scientific rigor to your work. You will deliver incrementally, setting up and executing experiments informed by rigorous failure space analysis of prior experiments. You have a knack for writing clear, succinct and informative reports of your experiments. You collaborate and seek guidance from other scientists on your team to define the next experiments. You collaborate closely with engineers to bring your innovations into production. You will continuously with customers and stakeholders to simplify and adapt to deliver for our customers. You will develop state-of-the-art web search technology, including training novel retrieval and ranking models, scaling models and optimizing performance, partnering with engineering to deploy and debug model performance in production, and building and scaling quality training data sets.

Are you looking to work at the forefront of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI)? Would you be excited to apply AI algorithms to solve real world problems with significant impact? The Amazon Web Services Professional Services (ProServe) team is seeking a skilled Senior Data Scientist to help customers implement AI/ML solutions and realize transformational business opportunities. This is a team of scientists, engineers, and architects working step-by-step with customers to build bespoke solutions that harness the power of AI. The team helps customers imagine and scope the use cases that will create the greatest value for their businesses, select and train and fine-tune the right models, define paths to navigate technical or business challenges, develop scalable solutions and applications, and launch them in production. The team provides guidance and implements best practices for applying AI responsibly and cost efficiently. You will work directly with customers and innovate in a fast-paced organization that contributes to game-changing projects and technologies. You will design and run experiments, research new algorithms, and find new ways of optimizing risk, profitability, and customer experience. We’re looking for Senior Data Scientists capable of using AI/ML and other techniques to design, evangelize, and implement state-of-the-art solutions for never-before-solved problems. Key job responsibilities As an experienced Senior Data Scientist, you will be responsible for: 1. Lead end-to-end AI/ML and GenAI projects, from understanding business needs to data preparation, model development, solution deployment, and post-production monitoring 2. Collaborate with AI/ML scientists, engineers, and architects to research, design, develop, and evaluate AI algorithms and build ML systems and operations (MLOps) using AWS services to address real-world challenges 3. Interact with customers directly to understand the business challenges, deliver briefing and deep dive sessions to customers and guide them on adoption patterns and paths to production 4. Create and deliver best practice recommendations, tutorials, blog posts, publications, sample code, and presentations tailored to technical, business, and executive stakeholders 5. Provide customer and market feedback to product and engineering teams to help define product direction This is a customer-facing role with potential travel to customer sites as needed. About the team ABOUT AWS: Diverse Experiences Amazon values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve in the cloud. Inclusive Team Culture Here at AWS, it’s in our nature to learn and be curious. Our employee-led affinity groups foster a culture of inclusion that empower us to be proud of our differences. Ongoing events and learning experiences, including our Conversations on Race and Ethnicity (CORE) and AmazeCon (gender diversity) conferences, inspire us to never stop embracing our uniqueness. Mentorship and Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional.

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we're advancing the frontier of visual reasoning and agentic AI technologies. Our vision is to develop sophisticated AI systems that can understand, interpret, and reason about visual information at human-like levels, enabling breakthrough applications across multiple industries. Key job responsibilities * Develop a novel agentic AI framework to solve diverse visual AI challenges in the physical world * Advance the theory and practice of multi-modal foundation models for visual understanding * Design new approaches to memory and attention mechanisms for processing continuous visual streams * Create innovative techniques for efficient visual processing that can scale to real-world applications * Research new methods for autonomous decision-making based on visual inputs * Investigate approaches to reduce the computational and data requirements of visual reasoning systems A day in the life As an Applied Scientist, you'll conduct fundamental research in visual reasoning while maintaining a clear path to practical applications. You'll investigate novel architectural approaches, develop new theoretical frameworks, and validate ideas through rigorous experimentation. You'll collaborate with other scientists and engineers to transform research insights into scalable solutions, publish your findings in top-tier conferences, and help shape the future direction of visual AI technology. Leveraging and advancing generative AI technology will be a big part of your charter as we seek to apply the latest advancements in generative AI to industry-specific problems About the team Our research team is tackling fundamental challenges in visual reasoning that combine generative AI and agentic frameworks. We're investigating novel approaches to how AI systems understand spatial relationships, reason about object interactions, and maintain contextual awareness across time. Working at the intersection of computer vision and large language models, we're developing theoretical frameworks and practical techniques that advance the state-of-the-art in visual AI. AWS Solutions As part of the AWS solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. we blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

As part of the AWS Applied AI Solutions organization, we're advancing the frontier of visual reasoning and agentic AI technologies. Our vision is to develop sophisticated AI systems that can understand, interpret, and reason about visual information at human-like levels, enabling breakthrough applications across multiple industries. The Team Our research team is tackling fundamental challenges in visual reasoning that combine generative AI and agentic frameworks. We're investigating novel approaches to how AI systems understand spatial relationships, reason about object interactions, and maintain contextual awareness across time. Working at the intersection of computer vision and large language models, we're developing theoretical frameworks and practical techniques that advance the state-of-the-art in visual AI. Key job responsibilities - Develop a novel agentic AI framework to solve diverse visual AI challenges in the physical world - Advance the theory and practice of multi-modal foundation models for visual understanding - Design new approaches to memory and attention mechanisms for processing continuous visual streams - Create innovative techniques for efficient visual processing that can scale to real-world applications - Research new methods for autonomous decision-making based on visual inputs - Investigate approaches to reduce the computational and data requirements of visual reasoning systems A day in the life As an Applied Scientist, you'll conduct fundamental research in visual reasoning while maintaining a clear path to practical applications. You'll investigate novel architectural approaches, develop new theoretical frameworks, and validate ideas through rigorous experimentation. You'll collaborate with other scientists and engineers to transform research insights into scalable solutions, publish your findings in top-tier conferences, and help shape the future direction of visual AI technology. About the team AWS Solutions As part of the AWS solutions organization, we have a vision to provide business applications, leveraging Amazon's unique experience and expertise, that are used by millions of companies worldwide to manage day-to-day operations. We will accomplish this by accelerating our customers' businesses through delivery of intuitive and differentiated technology solutions that solve enduring business challenges. we blend vision with curiosity and Amazon's real-world experience to build opinionated, turnkey solutions. Where customers prefer to buy over build, we become their trusted partner with solutions that are no-brainers to buy and easy to use. About AWS Diverse Experiences AWS values diverse experiences. Even if you do not meet all of the preferred qualifications and skills listed in the job description, we encourage candidates to apply. If your career is just starting, hasn’t followed a traditional path, or includes alternative experiences, don’t let it stop you from applying. Why AWS? Amazon Web Services (AWS) is the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. We pioneered cloud computing and never stopped innovating — that’s why customers from the most successful startups to Global 500 companies trust our robust suite of products and services to power their businesses. Inclusive Team Culture AWS values curiosity and connection. Our employee-led and company-sponsored affinity groups promote inclusion and empower our people to take pride in what makes us unique. Our inclusion events foster stronger, more collaborative teams. Our continual innovation is fueled by the bold ideas, fresh perspectives, and passionate voices our teams bring to everything we do. Mentorship & Career Growth We’re continuously raising our performance bar as we strive to become Earth’s Best Employer. That’s why you’ll find endless knowledge-sharing, mentorship and other career-advancing resources here to help you develop into a better-rounded professional. Work/Life Balance We value work-life harmony. Achieving success at work should never come at the expense of sacrifices at home, which is why we strive for flexibility as part of our working culture. When we feel supported in the workplace and at home, there’s nothing we can’t achieve.

Amazon’s Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) organization is developing a next-generation web search system to support RAG applications across Amazon. We are looking for a Applied Scientist with expertise in information retrieval (IR) and ranking to join the team! If you are looking for an opportunity to develop innovative solutions to deep technical problems in web-scale IR, having a massive customer impact, this might be the role for you! As a Applied Scientist, you will work with smart, passionate colleagues in a fast-paced environment. You will invent, develop, and help deploy novel, scalable algorithms to advance the state-of-the-art in our IR stack. You will keep up with relevant research in the field of IR and publish your work in top-tier conferences. You will develop and help lead the execution of multi-year research roadmaps, enabling the team to focus on the right technical challenges to delight our customers. Key job responsibilities As an Applied Scientist, you will apply scientific rigor to your work. You will deliver incrementally, setting up and executing experiments informed by rigorous failure space analysis of prior experiments. You have a knack for writing clear, succinct and informative reports of your experiments. You collaborate and seek guidance from other scientists on your team to define the next experiments. You collaborate closely with engineers to bring your innovations into production. You work continuously with customers and stakeholders to simplify and adapt to deliver for our customers.